Spring garden and Radiation tattoos

This is spring in my yard. I love these change of season things in my own yard. Spring brings snow peas and broccoli which means sweet dipable veggies and many more stir fry meals. The orange blossoms are blooming and fragrant. We still have some oranges to pick and juice so I can have fresh OJ in the freezer all year. It got a little warm over the weekend, so I made the first iced tea of the season and turned on the swamp cooler for the first time
Roses are sending out their first beautiful enormous blooms.
Irises are blooming
Purple irises bloom about a week after the white ones.
These are my Rio Samba roses. They start yellow, turn to orange and then pink. All flowers love spring in Arizona.

For other news on the home front, Jules and I went to the radiation oncologist yesterday. Studies have shown better results using both chemo and radiation at the same time, so he went today to get tattoos to guide them in the radiation each day. He wanted to have the last supper tattooed on his chest however, they put tiny little dots which almost look like a freckle. He will have radiation for five and 1/2 weeks, five days a week. It will take a maximum of a half hour each day. They don't expect that he will have burning on his skin and he will hopefully tolerate it well. He will have to get a feeding tube, but will only use it if he starts having swallowing problems. This may happen temporarily due to inflammation and swelling of the tumor in his esophagus. We would have waited on the tube, but the doctor said that it takes about a week to get a feeding tube put in. He could become very weak if he cannot eat for a week and be unable to tolerate the chemo & radiation. Good nutrition is very important for a positive outcome. We like the idea that he will be chewing most and hopefully all of his meals. Jules says that it is hard to get steak through a feeding tube. Even though we eat steak only about once a year, this is very important to him! He will have his 1st Radiation treatment and 2nd chemo on April 21.